Molds & Tooling
Take Time to Save Time: Five Steps in Mold Design to Reduce Back-End Troubleshooting
Westminster Tool shares how the one week it typically takes to perform these five steps in the design phase can save three weeks or more in an overall tool build.
Read MoreCooling Geometry and the Reynolds Calculation
The original Turbulent Flow Rate Calculator worked well with a round circuit diameter, such as a drilled passage, but not as well using hydraulic diameters. Here’s how the problem was fixed.
Read MoreVacuum System Gives Molds a Chance to Vent
When the in-house vacuum systems and tooling tricks that NMC Dynaplas usually deploys to deal with trapped gas failed, it turned to a Mold-Vac system and saw reject rates go from 44% to zero.
Read More50 Years of Headlines … Almost
I was lucky to get an early look at many of the past half-century’s exciting developments in plastics. Here’s a selection.
Read MoreMolders’ Block: Dealing With Foreign Materials in a Hot-Runner System
Understanding plastic flow can help you understand how foreign materials move—or don’t move—through your hot-runner system.
Read MoreCPT to Offer Mold-Handling Equipment
Cincinnati Process Technologies (CPT) has partnered with German firm RUD (Aalen) to offer that company’s full line of mold-handling equipment in the U.S. and Canada.
Read MoreClamps Allow Faster Mold Changes
Mouldpro says its Power Sliding Clamp can accommodate a range of different mold back-plate sizes and thicknesses.
Read MoreHigh-Temperature, Low-Flow Indicator for Mold-Cooling Applications
Burger & Brown Engineering has released a new high-temperature low-flow indicator to monitor flow inside critical, restricted cooling paths such as those with bubblers or baffles.
Read MoreInternally Heated Single-Zone Hot Sprue Bushings
Melt Design says the new Equatemp hot sprue bushings provide better melt flow control for more consistent molding.
Read MorePCS Company Names New President
The Fraser, Mich.-based supplier to the injection molding, moldmaking and die-casting industry named Angela Elsey as its new president, effective April 1, succeeding David Cataldi.
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